Faxian (法顯 [fà.ɕjɛ̀n]; 337 CE – c. 422 CE), also referred to as Fa-Hien, Fa-hsien and Sehi, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from China to India to acquire Buddhist texts.Starting his arduous journey about age 60, he visited sacred Buddhist sites in Central, South and Southeast Asia between 399 and 412 CE, of which 10 years were spent in …

— Faxian, Chinese pilgrim to India (4th/5th century CE) The Vedas [ edit ] Evidence from the Vedas suggests the diet of the Vedic people consisted of cereals, initially barley but later dominated by rice, pulses such as māsha ( urad ), mudga ( moong ), and masūra ( masoor ), vegetables such as lotus roots, lotus stem, bottle gourd and milk ...

History and functions. Between 1922 and 1925, Chen Duxiu (still Party Secretary) served as chairman of the Central Executive Committee (Chinese: 中央执行委员会委员长), but the name was changed to General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee in 1925. The post was first introduced in March 1943, when the Politburo decided to discharge Zhang Wentian as General …

The 5th century is the time period from 401 through 500 Anno Domini (AD) or Common Era (CE) in the Julian calendar.The 5th century is noted for being a period of migration and political instability throughout Eurasia.. It saw the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which came to an end in 476 AD. This empire had been ruled by a succession of weak emperors, with the real …

Kolkata, then known as Calcutta, was the capital of British India from 1772 to 1911. Although it was also geographically the easiest accessible metropolitan area from China by land but there was no Chinese people in Calcutta until the late British Raj era, Chinese immigrants choose to go to Burma instead. One of the first persons of Chinese origin to arrive in Calcutta was Yang Tai …

Pataliputra (IAST: Pāṭaliputra), adjacent to modern-day Patna, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE as a small fort (Pāṭaligrāma) near the Ganges river. Udayin laid the foundation of the city of Pataliputra at the confluence of two rivers, the Son and the Ganges.He shifted his capital from Rajgriha to Patliputra due to the latter's ...

Dating. Jātaka tales may be quite ancient. The term appears as part of a schema of Buddhist literary forms called the nine component genres of the Buddha's teaching (navaṅga-buddhasāsana), and depictions of them appear in early Indian art (as early as the second century BCE).They are also widely represented in ancient Indian inscriptions. According to Straube, …

Abhayagiri Vihāra was a major monastery site of Mahayana, Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism that was situated in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.It is one of the most extensive ruins in the world and one of the most sacred Buddhist pilgrimage cities in the nation. Historically it was a great monastic centre as well as a royal capital, with magnificent monasteries rising to many stories, roofed …

Medinipur or Midnapore (Pron: med̪iːniːpur) is a city known for it's history in the Indian state of West Bengal.It is the headquarters of the West Medinipur district.It is situated on the banks of the Kangsabati River (variously known as Kasai and Cossye).The Urban Agglomeration of Midnapore consists of the city proper, Mohanpur, Keranichoti and Khayerullachak.

Yijing (635–713 CE), formerly romanized as I-ching or I-tsing, born Zhang Wenming, was a Tang-era Chinese Buddhist monk famed as a traveller and translator. His account of his travels is an important source for the history of the medieval kingdoms along the sea route between China and India, especially Srivijaya in Indonesia.A student of the Buddhist university at Nālandā (now in …